NEW DELHI: A Delhi court framed Monday charges against former railway minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav, and 11 others in the alleged IRCTC scam that rigged railway hotel contracts for favoured private players.Rabri and Tejashwi prima facie emerge as participants in the criminal conspiracy of which Lalu Prasad was seemingly…
Lucknow: To cover up rising incidents of caste atrocities, the BJP is trying to gag the PDA community, said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday.“The govt is nurturing a feudal mindset under which crime victims and their families are being forced to settle disputes and not to pursue their complaints against the accused,” Akhilesh…
There’s a new update in the ongoing legal battle between ‘It Ends With Us’ co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. This time, it is the director’s former agent, Danny Greenberg, who described Lively’s behaviour as feeling like “extortion.” Deposition transcript reveals Blake’s behaviour In a deposition transcript obtained by TMZ, Greenberg detailed his experience with…
NEW DELHI: Amid China’s expansion of dams on the Brahmaputra, India on Monday unveiled a Rs 6.4-lakh crore ‘Master Plan’ to wheel 76 gigawatt (GW) of power from ongoing and proposed projects on the mighty river’s 12 sub-basins across the North-East.The plan prepared by Central Electricity Authority, power ministry’s technical planning arm, envisages building a…
Lucknow: Adding a green touch to Diwali celebrations, the LMC will sell over 30,000 eco-friendly Gomai (cow dung) diyas and Ganesh-Lakshmi idols made from cow dung this festive season.The diyas, crafted at Kanha Upvan, will be available in packs of 4, 10, 20, and 300 from Oct 15. According to LMC’s animal welfare officer Abhinav…
NEW DELHI: The Centre has identified more than 31 lakh beneficiaries of the income support scheme (PM-Kisan) as suspected cases where both husband and wife had received cash simultaneously against the rule of getting the benefit by only one member of the landholder family.Finding such cases during scrutiny, the agriculture ministry has asked states and…
Lucknow: Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) will hold its second convocation ceremony on Tuesday at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Gomtinagar. Governor Anandiben Patel will preside over the convocation while deputy CM Brajesh Pathak & child welfare and minister of state Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh will also grace the occasion. Source link
Image credit: www.princeton.edu Did you know that the word “campus,” now synonymous with the sprawling grounds of universities, owes its origin to Princeton University in the 18th century? Before “campus” entered the academic lexicon, American colleges referred to their grounds simply as a “yard.” Harvard has had its Yard since 1639, and Princeton followed suit….
DURGAPURA: The elder sister of the main accused in the alleged gang rape of a medical student in Bengal’s Durgapur on October 10 helped police track down her absconding brother and arrest him early Monday.Rozina Sk, who said she wanted Safiq Sk to face the law, accompanied a police team to a spot below a…
Lucknow: A 50-year-old cloth trader, Neeraj Jain, was found dead in his rented home in Laxmanpuri locality in Barabanki on Monday night. A licensed revolver lay beside his body and his chest had a gunshot wound.Police recovered a three-page suicide note in which Jain cited financial troubles and alleged harassment by several individuals as reasons…